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102-
Nathan B. Stubblefield, the Man History
OverheardBy
Harvey
GellerIn Life's current Bicentennial
issue, radio checks in, at #86 on the hot
"100 Events That Shaped America," 19
buttons behind Bell's telephone.
Erroneously, Life lists Guglielmo Marcon's
dots and dashes as the first wireless
broadcast, a fable echoed by the World
Almanac and Encyclopedia Britannica. It's
a forgivable mumpsimus, since the evidence
offered on the following pages has not,
until now, appeared in any national
publication.
The birth of broadcasting is a bizarre
soap opera saga, a lacrymal legend of
mystery, machination, ephemeral
enshrinement, decline, disillusionment and
disaster. It's denouncement dissolves six
miles north of Murray, Kentucky, in a
two-room shanty constructed of pine and
cornstalks, where radio's uncelebrated
architect is discovered 48 hours after his
death, his records scattered, his
equipment destroyed, his brain partly
eaten by rats. Even local radio fails to
mention his demise. He is Nathan Beverly
Stubblefield, the man history over-heard
and then overlooked.
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102-
Nathan B. Stubblefield, the Man History
OverheardBy
Harvey
GellerIn Life's current Bicentennial
issue, radio checks in, at #86 on the hot
"100 Events That Shaped America," 19
buttons behind Bell's telephone.
Erroneously, Life lists Guglielmo Marcon's
dots and dashes as the first wireless
broadcast, a fable echoed by the World
Almanac and Encyclopedia Britannica. It's
a forgivable mumpsimus, since the evidence
offered on the following pages has not,
until now, appeared in any national
publication.
The birth of broadcasting is a bizarre
soap opera saga, a lacrymal legend of
mystery, machination, ephemeral
enshrinement, decline, disillusionment and
disaster. It's denouncement dissolves six
miles north of Murray, Kentucky, in a
two-room shanty constructed of pine and
cornstalks, where radio's uncelebrated
architect is discovered 48 hours after his
death, his records scattered, his
equipment destroyed, his brain partly
eaten by rats. Even local radio fails to
mention his demise. He is Nathan Beverly
Stubblefield, the man history over-heard
and then overlooked.

"They all laughed at Christopher
Columbus
When he said the world
was round:
They all laughed when
Edison recorded sound . . .
Ha, Ha, Ha -- who's got the
last laugh now?"
--Ira Gershwin, 1937

When
an inordinately eccentric young farmer
suggested that he had invented a portable
wireless telephone that could broadcast
voice and music up over hight buildings
and down through stone walls, most of
Calloway County, Kentucky, chuckled. When
he revealed his "crazy box, and odd
assortment of batteries, rods, coils and
kegs, they howled.85
years after, their heirs are writing songs
of love, christening radio stations,
consecrating libraries and constructing
memorial monuments in his infinite honor.
The veneration is hardly widespread.
17,000 Murray, Kentucky, tobacco farmers
may agree that Nathan B Stubblefield was
the first man on earth to transmit and
receive the human voice without wires. But
most of our world is unacquainted with his
improbable name and even his proponents
are unaware of the precise date of his
private discovery. Evidence points to a
period between 1890 and 1892, at least
seven years before Marconi sent the first
wireless telegraph message across the
English Channel.
Stubblefield's
supporters maintain that telegraphy is far
different from telephony; that they are, I
fact, diverse discoveries. Wireless
telephone is hip-to-shore radio, the
walkie-talkie, the citizen band and
portable radio, the mobile phone, the
audio arm of television, rheostats,
rectifying tubes, filaments, dials,
microphones, AM and FM radio and every
broadcasting booth on earth--not Marconi's
Code signals.Marconi's
name is linked with Stubblefield's by
Trumbull White in a book called The
World's Progress, published in 1902. "Of
very recent success are the experiments of
Marconi with wireless telegraphy, an
astounding and important advance over the
ordinary system of telegraphy through
wires. Now comes the announcement that an
American inventor, unheralded and modest,
has carried out successful experiments of
telephoning and is able to transmit speech
for great distances without wires . . the
inventor is Nathan B. Stubblefield."
"This Fellow Is Fooling me.""Hello,
Rainey," according to Dr. Rainey T. Wells,
founder of Murray State College, was the
world's first radio message. Testifying
before an FCC commission in 1947, Rainey
explained that he had personally heard
Stubblefield demonstrate his wireless
telephone as early as 1892."He
had a shack about four feet square near
his house from which he took an ordinary
telephone receiver, but entirely without
wires. Handing me these, he asked me to
walk some distance away and listen. I had
hardly reached my post, which happened to
be an apple orchard, when I heard 'Hello,
Rainey' come booming out of the receiver.
I jumped a foot and said to myself, 'This
fellow is fooling me. He as wires
somewhere.' So I moved to the side some 20
feet but all the while he kept talking to
me. I talked back and he answered me as
plainly as you please. I asked him to
patent the thing but he refused, saying he
wanted to continue his research and
perfect it."Dr.
William Mason, Stubblefield's family
physician, described a day during that
same year when Stubblefield "handed me a
device in what appeared to be a keg with a
handle on it. I started walking down the
lane . . . from it I could distinctly hear
his voice and a harmonica which he was
broadcasting to me several years before
Marconi made his announcement about
wireless telegraphy."
Stubblefield was
born in Murray, Kentucky, 1860 the son of
Attorney and Mrs. William Jefferson
Stubblefield (Capt. Billy). In his teens
he was reportedly an omnivorous student
and researched everything available on the
new science of electricity. When Alexander
Bel phoned Tom Watson on March 10, 1876,
to say "Come here, Watson; I want you,"
Stubblefield was already experimenting
with vibrating communication devices. In
1888 (Patent #378,183) he invented a
vibrating telephone. The Murray News
Weekly carried this item: "Charlie Hamlin
has his telephone I fine working order
from his store to his home. It is the
Nathan Stubblefield patent and is the best
I have ever talked through."Stubblefield
manufactured and patented batteries which
he later described as "the bedrock of all
my scientific research in raidio" (his
spelling).
"I have been
working on this, the wireless telephone,
for 10 or 12 years," he told a St. Louis
Post-Dispatch correspondent in January,
1902. "This solution is not the result of
an inspiration or the work of a minute. It
is the climax of years. The system can be
developed until messages by voice can be
sent and heard all over the country, even
to Europe. The world is it limits."

"Diamonds
as Large a Your Thumb."With
the new industrial and scientific epoch at
hand and the first Roosevelt in the White
House, Stubblefield built his broadcasting
station, a tiny workshop on the front
porch of his modest farmhouse. It was
barely wide enough to hold the transmitter
and one char. The transmitting mechanism
was concealed in a box four feet hight,tow
and a half feet wide, one and a half feet
deep. "In that box," said Stubblefield,
"lies the secret of my success." Five
hundred yards away was the experimental
receiving station, a dry-good box fastened
to the foot of a tree stump.The
St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter noted
that Stubblefield's 14-year-old son,
Bernard, was left on the porch wile h and
the inventor walked to the stump. The
writer picked up a receiver and heard
spasmodic buzzings and then: "Hello. Can
you hear me? Now I will count ten.
One-to-three-four-=five-six-seven-eight-nine-ten.
Did you hear that? Now I will whisper."
Later Bernard whistled and played the
mouth organ."I
heard as clearly as if the speaker were
only across a 12-foot room" wrote the
newsman.When
the article appeared on January 10, 1902,
Stubblefield was besieged by capitalists,
financiers, stock-jugglers, hucksters and
hawkers. Dr. Mason recalled seeing a
$40,000 check for a part interest in the
invention, as titans of industry "wearing
diamonds as large as your thumb" scuttled
up industry dirt roads to Stubblefield's
flinty farm."You
and I will yet add luster to the
Stubblefield name," wrote Nathan to his
cousin, Vernon.He
refused all propositions, including one
for half a million dollars. "It is north
twice that," he insisted, entrusting only
his son, Bernard, with the secret of his
mysterious keg. On occasion he repelled
over-inquisitive visitors with a
shotgun.Invited
by leading scientist, he traveled with his
trunk of mystery to Washington, D.C.,
where he demonstrated the practicability
of his contrivance from the steamship
Bartholdy on the Potomac to crowds along
the river bank. On Decoration Day, 1902,
he broadcast words and music form the
Belmont Mansion and Fairmont Park in
Philadelphia to hundreds of statesmen,
investors and newsmen. He obtained patents
in England, the U.S. and Canada.
In the Canadian patent is a drawing of a
"horseless carriage" with a broadcasting
set, presaging the auto radio by 30 years.
But perhaps even more remarkable are
notations that by reversing a switch one
could change a broadcasting station into a
receiving apparatus.
Articles appeared in major newspapers
throughout the world acclaiming him as the
distinguished inventor of the wireless
telephone and a celebrated scientific
genius. At lease one extravagant reporter
suggested that Stubblefield ad crated "the
world's greatest invention."

Decline
and Fall.
There are three conflicting theories on
how this farmer-inventor sowed the wind of
immortality and reaped the whirlwind of
oblivion. His cousin, Vernon, claimed the
invention was stolen

"Will I ever see my
trunk again?" Stubblefield scribbled on
the back of an old map after he returned
from Washington.
"All his valuables were in that trunk,"
said his cousin.
Perry Meloan, newspaper editor of
Edmonton, Kentucky, an ear-witness to the
first public demonstration in Murray,
declared that Stubblefield was inveigled
into a partnership in the Wireless
Telephone Company of America, located at
Broadway 11, New York. Learning that the
firm was not interested in perfecting his
creation but merely in selling stock
unscrupulously, Stubblefield returned
home. "Damn rascals," was his bitter
comment to friends, and he advised them to
withdraw their investment in his project.
Soon after, he renounced his wife, nine (5
surviving) children and all relatives and
built his hermitage gut in Almo, six miles
from his family farmhouse. That farmhouse
later mysteriously burned to the
ground.
His son, Bernard, joined the Westinghouse
Electrical Corp., the firm that introduced
the commercial radio. Did Bernard utilize
his father's secrets to produce those
early sets?
Wireless lights appeared in the trees and
along the fences guarding Stubblefield's
crudely constructed shanty and, according
to neighbors, voices, apparently coming
from the air, were heard by trespassers.
"Get your mule out of my cornfield,"
Stubblefield's wireless voice was hard to
say in the night.
He curtly refused the aid of friends. "He
was never insane," they insisted, "only
queer."
Robert McDermott found the body of Nathan
Stubblefield on March 30, 1928. "Death due
to starvation," was Dr. Mason's
conclusion. In a unmarked grave in
Bowman's cemetery, one and a half miles
form Murray, Stubblefield lies alone.
In 1930 a memorial to "the first man to
transmit and receive the human voice
without wires" was dedicated at Murray
State Teachers College campus, less than
100 feet from the charred ruins of the
world's first broadcasting station.
In 1962 his tragic life was dramatized in
an epicedial folk opera, The Stubblefield
Story, composed by Murray State professor
Paul Shahan and Mrs. Lillian Lowry and
performed in the campus auditorium.
Murray's only radio station, 1 1000-watt
outlet, broadcasts "middle of the road and
some rock music as well," according to
owner Fransuelle Cole. Book-ended between
Bruce Springsteen's "Borne to Rune" a a
live commercial for Kroger's grocery, on
hears. "You are tune to WNBS, 1340 on your
radio dial in Murray, Kentucky: the
birthplace of radio."
The stations call-letters, not
accidentally, are Stubblefield's
initials.
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Troy
Cory remembers his friend, rock pioneer
Little
Richard
Back
in the days of Specialty Records, Art
Rupe, Larry Williams, Sonny Bono,
Lloyd Price, René Hall,
Robert "Bumps"
Blackwell and Little Richard, Troy
remembers his friend Little Richard as
having been a force to wrecken with.
Pianist Larry Williams was one of the
first black "rock 'n roll stars"
for Specialty and the young teenybopper
Troy Cory-Stubblefield was signed up as
the label's first white
artist.
Little Richard
(Richard Wayne Penniman) passed away
Saturday, June 9, at his family home in
Tullahoma, Tennessee. He was 87 and had
been battling bone
cancer.In
early 1956, he formed an honored
foundation of rock. Richard was one of the
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's inaugural
inductees in 1986, and he received the
Recording Academy's lifetime achievement
award in 1993.
The Georgia native
exerted profound influence on the Beatles
and many other legends to follow,
including James Brown (who succeeded him
in one of his early bands), Jimi Hendrix
(one of his backup musicians in the
mid-'60s) and Bruce Springsteen.His
first top hit (1956) "Long Tall Sally,"
made the top 10, and was joined there
later by "Jenny Jenny," "Keep a Knockin' "
and "Good Golly, Miss Molly," and "Tutti
Frutti." Richard's other notable singles
were "Rip It Up," "Slippin' and Slidin'
(Peepin' and Hidin')" and "Lucille. Most
of his songs bore his credit as a
co-writer.
In the mid-'50s he
met R&B star Lloyd Price, who advised
him to contact his label, Specialty
Records. Richard sent a demo tape to the
Los Angeles company, whose owner, Art
Rupe, was looking for someone to compete
with Atlantic Records' new sensation Ray
Charles.Sensing
some potential in the urgent voice on the
crude tape, Rupe signed Little Richard and
dispatched producer Robert "Bumps"
Blackwell to record him in New Orleans in
September 1955, with the cream of the
city's studio players, including
saxophonist Lee Allen and drummer Earl
Palmer.
Later Richard began
recording religious music, and in 1962 he
took an offer to tour England singing
gospel songs. But when he saw the audience
response to Sam Cooke, one of his opening
acts, he dusted off the old hits. Little
Richard was back.///
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115-
FILMFEST MÜNCHEN postponed to
2021Even FILMFEST MÜNCHEN
scheduled for June 25 to July 4, had to be
canceled for 2020 due to the corona
pandemic. This still saddens us - festival
director Diana Iljine and the whole team -
deeply. But life goes on: we're highly
motivated and are already working on the
next edition.
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115- "We Are One' Online Film Festival"
will kick off on Youtube, May
29- By Gary Sunkin
There are around 3,000 film
festivals currently active (i.e. ran
in the past two years) 9,706 film
festivals have run at least once in
the last 15 years.
The majority of film festivals
do charge for submissions (an average
of $27 for short films and $40
for feature films), but this isn't
their main source of
income.


One reason advertisers like film festivals
is that festival attendees tend to have
plenty of money to spend. For example, at
Sundance, over 50% of attendees have a
household income of $100,000, while 26%
have a household income of over
$200,000.
Arguably there is not a single major
film festival but, the most
prestigious film
festivals include Cannes, Berlin, and
Venice film festival, sometimes
called "The
Big Three."


The major film festivals
include"Venice
International Film Festival" "The Cannes
Film Festival" -- France; "Tribeca Film
Festival" -- New York.; "Taormina Film
Fest" -- Sicily; "Sundance Film
Festival"-- Park City, Utah; "SXSW Film
Festival " -- Austin, Texas; "Berlin
International Film Festival" and "TIFF"
Toronto,
Canada.

The oldest film festival in the world,
founded in 1932, is the Venice Film
Festival. Since World War II, film
festivals have contributed
significantly to the development of the
motion-picture industry in many
countries.
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Cannes Film Festival Finally Admits It
Won't Happen This SummerAPR. 16, 2020
-- As huge theme
parks and whole sports
leagues around the world pause
operations to mitigate the spread of
COVID-19, the Cannes Film Festival, as the
essential pillar for the film industry,
has been reluctant to make an official
declaration about this year's event.
Today, though, organizers finally
acquiesced and released a statement saying
that even a delay until the summer (Cannes
was scheduled to begin on May 12) would
not allow the festival to go on with all
its typical pageantry.
"We acknowledge
that the postponement of the 73rd
International Cannes Film Festival,
initially considered for the end of June
to the beginning of July, is no longer an
option," reads a statement released by the
organizers. Cannes "must explore all
contingencies allowing to support the year
of Cinema by making Cannes 2020 real, in
one way or another."
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Venice Film Festival is going forward as
planned

With conventions,
festivals, albums, concerts, and more
being pushed to the fall or canceled
entirely due to the coronavirus pandemic,
the Venice Film Festival is sticking to
its plans for September 2 - 12.
In a recent
interview with the Italian wire service
ANSA, Venice Biennial president Roberto
Cicutto once again confirmed the September
2 to12 dates for the 77th Venice Film
Festival and downplayed plans for a Venice
without Cannes Film Festival
collaboration.
Strict social
distancing regulations forced
the Cannes Film Festival to
postpone this year's event, once to
mid-July and a second time
indefinitely. While Cannes director
Thierry Fremaux suggested that
Venice Film Fest and Cannes may
combine their efforts, Roberto Cicutto
told ANSA that there is no "hypothesis"
for a collaboration at this time. "We are
going forward with our program, and if
Cannes is still thinking (about their
course of action) then there is no
dialogue."
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101- 27
million tune into Easter Message of Hope
from Milano, Italy - Andrea Bocelli
livestreams coronavirus
messageAndrea
Bocelli would not be stopped by a
pandemic from delivering a little hope on
Easter Sunday.Invited
by the city of Milan, the Italian
opera star on Sunday morning
livestreamed a solo performance on YouTube
-- "Andrea Bocelli: Music for Hope" --
from the city's main cathedral, the Duomo
di Milano, with 27 million people around
the world tuning in.
Showing sweeping views of the
centuries-old city of Milano, the video's
introduction carried Bocelli's voice-over
Easter message, also a reference to
the coronoavirus outbreak that
has ravaged his country and weighs on most
of the world."I
believe in the strength of praying
together. I believe in the Christian
Easter, a universal symbol of rebirth that
everyone whether they are believers or not
truly needs right now."

Duomo
di Milano


In a statement,
Bocelli expressed how much of an emotional
performance this was in terms of not only
the holiday but also the state of the
world during this crisis. "I
will cherish the emotion of this
unprecedented and profound experience, of
this Holy Easter which this emergency has
made painful, but at the same time even
more fruitful, one that will stay among my
dearest memories of all time. That feeling
of being at the same time alone -- as we
all are in the presence of the Most High
-- yet of expressing the voice of the
prayer of millions of voices, has deeply
impressed and moved me."
In
the empty cathedral backed only by
organist Emanuele Vianelli, Bocelli ran
through a program that included
performances of "Panis Angelicus," "Ave
Maria," "Sancta Maria," and ending with
"Amazing Grace" in front of the
magnificent Duomo di Milano, the seat of
the archbishop of Milan.
Images of other
global landmarks such as the Eiffel Tower,
Venice and New York were also a part of
the presentation.
On the YouTube
page, there is also a link to the
singer's Andrea Bocelli Foundation
(ABF) GoFundMe campaign that
aims to help hospitals purchase personal
protective equipment necessary to protect
local medical staff.
Note: Italy
suffered approximately 160,000 Coronavirus
infected cases and more than 20,000
deaths.
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104-
Germany to issue coronavirus antibody
certificates
Germany will issue coronavirus antibody
certificates to allow quarantined to
re-enter society. Researchers to test
thousands for immunity as Berlin plans
exit strategy for pandemic lock down.
German researchers plan to introduce
coronavirus 'immunity certificates' to
facilitate a proper transition into
post-lockdown life.
The antibodies will indicate that the test
participants have had the virus, have
healed and are thereby ready to re-enter
society and the workforce.

The researchers plan to test 100,000
members of the public at a time, issuing
documentation to those who have overcome
the virus and will use the information to
determine how to properly bring the
country's lockdown to and end, including
re-opening schools and allowing mass
gatherings.
The immunity certificates are part of a
research project being carried out at the
Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research in
Braunschweig in coming weeks which will
conduct blood tests to look for antibodies
produced against the novel coronavius in
the general public, reports German
magazine Der Spiegel.///
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108-
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numberSome
customers still like to use traditional
checks, but to save time and money new
technology has allowed those paper checks
to be converted into a digital version
known as Check21. This is a fast, secure,
and efficient way to offer an additional
payment option to merchants while saving
on transaction fees that are higher when
accepting debit and credit cards.
Check21
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for all your goods and services! Get
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108-
TELEVISIONINTERNATIONAL
MAGAZINE receives 2019 Best of Toluca Lake
AwardTOLUCA
LAKE, December 17, 2019 -- TELEVISION
INTERNATIONAL MAGAZINE has been selected
for the 2019 Best of Toluca Lake Award in
the Magazine Publishers since 1956
category by the Toluca Lake Award
Program.
Various sources of information were
gathered and analyzed to choose the
winners in each category. The 2019 Toluca
Lake Award Program focuses on quality, not
quantity. Winners are determined based on
the information gathered both internally
by the Toluca Lake Award Program and data
provided by third parties.
The Toluca Lake Award Program is an annual
awards program honoring the achievements
and accomplishments of local businesses
throughout the Toluca Lake area.
Recognition is given to those companies
that have shown the ability to use their
best practices and implemented programs to
generate competitive advantages and
long-term value.Click
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
Troy Cory was among the first
international entertainers and the first
American entertainer to perform in the
People's Republic of China, beginning in
1988. In itself a notable
culture-historical feat, in view of
China's closed door policies of the late
70s and well into the 80s. The PRC's
administrative climate in comparison is
much less restrictive now and China's open
door policy enables many entertainers to
introduce themselves to the populace
Chinese audiences.
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Back in the 80s, as a
goodwill ambassador representing the
U.S.A., Troy Cory and his back-up dancers
and singers, "The Brooke Sisters," were
the first entertainers from the United
States to appear in a full staged program
in the People's Republic of China during
the Shanghai TV Festival, and televised on
China's National Television (CCTV), viewed
by over 300 million
people.
 
It was there Cory met Jiang Zemin, then
mayor of Shanghai, and who later became
the 5th President of the People's Republic
of
China.
The '88 Shanghai Concert was the
beginnings of Troy's concert tours in
China for the next two decades. The
concerts, just to name a few, included the
following cities: Shanghai, Beijing,
Anshan, Harbin,Fuzhou and and Tsingtao
(Qingdao)

In
April 1956 TVI debuted it's
first edition with offices at
1580 Crossroad of the World,
Hollywood, CA.
InMarch,
1963, TVI hosted the first
"Annual Festival of World TV
Classics Award " at the
Huntington Hartford Theater.
Since 1956 TVI grew to command
the print readership of
television network executives
in 142 countries on six
continents, covering the
industry of television, film,
telecommunication and WiTEL.
In the mid-90s Television
International Magazine (TVI
Magazine) went online as:
tvimagazine.com

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115- NATPE Budapest Int'lJUNE 30 - JULY 3NATPE
Budapest is going to be held at
the Intercontinental in Budapest,
Hungary from June 30th,
&endash; July 3rd, 2020. It will
be a 4 days business Conference
organized by National Center For
The Study Of Collective
Bargaining focusing on the
companies news, products and
services of Business Services
industry.
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BUDAPEST INT'L